CHAPTER LXVIII
THE GREAT REVIVAL IN JERUSALEM
Sermon by Mrs. M. B. Woodworth-Etter, at Montwait
Acts 5-11, 12: “And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things. And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people (and they were all with one accord in Solomon’s porch
This was the greatest-revival given in the New Testament, greater in many ways than Pentecost. Then they were all with one accord in one place, awaiting the outpouring of the Spirit. They all made the same sound. You get there and God will shake the country
Signs and wonders were wrought and of the rest durst no man join himself unto them. They were so full of fire no one dared to say falsely, “I am one of you.” They were afraid God strike them dead. God wants to get a people so full of power, His power, that others full of wildfire will not say, “God sent me.”
What was the result? Believers were added, to the church? No, to the Lord; multitudes both of men and women. Some say that this excitement, this fanaticism is good enough for women, but there was a multitude of strong minded men here.
They brought the sick into the street and laid them on beds couches, that Peter’s shadow might overshadow some of them. See what a cranky set they were! I wish we were just like that. Excitement rose higher and higher.
The whole country was stirred. There came a multitude out of the city about Jerusalem, bringing the sick, and they were healed, every one; healed because they came right. A wonderful revival was it not?
In the midst of it it was broken up. The high priest and Saducees arrested them and put them in prison. Bless God, they did not stay there long. God sent His angel down and brought them out and told them to go into the temple and preach to the people.
It took some grace to do that, did it not? To go right back
there and preach all the word, not leaving out Divine Healing,
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